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Liability for Contents

• Burn, drown, or smash your phone: Forensics can extract data anyway
• A new bill could punish web platforms for using end-to-end encryption
• French court rules that Steam’s ban on reselling used games is contrary to European law
• MEPs approve sweeping changes to copyright law
• The Legalities of Linking
• COPYRIGHT LIABILITY FOR LINKING AND EMBEDDING - Klaris Law (.PDF)
• EU court says linking to copyrighted material isn't illegal
• IP Address is Not Enough to Identify Pirate, US Court of Appeals Rules - (.PDF)
• New EU Piracy Watchlist Targets Key Pirate Sites and Cloudflare - (.PDF)
• Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules
• Reporting When Pirate Releases Hit The Internet is Apparently Illegal Now
• Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blocking
• Web Sheriff
• List of websites blocked in the United Kingdom
• Who Watches the Watchmen: Exploring Complaints on the Web

Internet Service Providers

• Major US ISPs Refuse to Discuss Repeat Infringer Policies
• British ISPs throw in the towel, give up sending out toothless copyright infringement warnings
• How to start your own ISP - Start your own ISP, lists tools which you need and lots of background information.

ISPs you should avoid

• AT&T
• CenturyLink
• Comcast/Xfinity
• Cox Communications
• Spectrum/Charter
• Telekom
• Verizon
• Vodafone

Piracy status among contries

• Where are torrents permitted? - A world map (picture) which shows where warez torrenting is allowed.

Countries where piracy is permitted

::: warning For personal use only. Publishing & sharing it is always illegal! :::

• Poland
• Spain
• Switzerland

Countries where both downloading & sharing is illegal

• Argentina
• Bangladesh
• Brazil
  • Operation against digital piracy searches in 12 states
• Canada
• Chile
• Columbia
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Egypt
• Greece
• India
• Iran
• Israel
• Malaysia
• Mexico
• Netherlands
• Philippines
• Romania
• Singapore
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• South Korea
• Uruguay

Countries where torrenting copyright material is highly illegal

• Australia
• China
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Itlay
• Japan
• Korea
• Latvia
• Portugal
• Russia
• UAE
• UK
• US

GeoIP restricted countries

• Canada
• China
• Germany
• India
• Itlay
• Japan
• Latvia
• Malaysia
• Portugal
• Russia
• Singapore
• South Korea
• UAE
• UK
• US

Public DMCA complaints

• Lumendatabase.org - A database e.g. Google uses for their blacklist, it provides hundreds of links with movie and tv shows.
• UK ISP Court Orders - A incomplete list of websites recently taken down in the UK by the High Court.
• Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List (.PDF) - A list from 2018 provided by Europol and others, to watch the current piracy status.